Disqus - Friends of gishdog

Re: Netflix’s DRM Turned Me Into a Pirate

britg — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:07:45 -0000

Unfortunately, I never got to the 360 plugin - 'Watch Instantly' wouldn't even work on my computer because Netflix's DRM didn't like the fact that I was using a DVI cable and a new ATI videocard. Last time I checked, it doesn't take an obligation by Microsoft or Netflix to support a DVI cable or video card for streaming video. Microsoft intentionally put DRM in place in collusion with Netflix to PREVENT my setup.

I'm definitely looking forward to the fall update so I don't have to go through my PC to the xbox, though.

Re: Netflix’s DRM Turned Me Into a Pirate

britg — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:47:08 -0000

Amen to that.

Re: Location Based Gaming and the iPhone

britg — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:50:33 -0000

Haha, yes I agree that would be amazing - I guarantee something like that will be released soon. Possibly after this next iphone update, when the GPS SDK is supposed to be a lot more accurate.

Re: A Review of Mint.com 3 Months In

britg — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:48:05 -0000

No problem! Thanks for implementing a great service.

Re: Google Reader Shared Items in WP RSS Widget

britg — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:54:18 -0000

hey no problem. Though, since writing this I have moved to the FriendFeed activity widget, which I like a lot better: http://wordpress.org/extend...

It includes your google reader shared items as well as other activities

Re: Extending PhoneGap to Return the iPhone’s Unique Identifier

britg — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:09:56 -0000

hey no problem!

Re: Extending PhoneGap to Return the iPhone’s Unique Identifier

britg — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 14:36:06 -0000

Hmm, when and where are you getting undefined? i.e. what's the context? Are you doing something like alert(Device.uniqueIdentifier) ?

If you can pastie your javascript code, maybe I can weed out the issue.

Re: Extending PhoneGap to Return the iPhone’s Unique Identifier

britg — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 13:56:26 -0000

Hmm, that all looks solid. Here's a silly question - you've compiled and re-run the phonegap app in xcode, correct? also, are you using your physical iphone or the simulator?

Re: Fixing the Keyboard Issue on the Current Version of PhoneGap

britg — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:37:12 -0000

No, sorry I made a bunch of other custom changes for my specific application
so I didn't put them on github or anywhere else. Would you like the this
GlassAppDelegate.m? I can't promise I didn't do something else in the code
for my app though

Re: Mad Duck

britg — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:42:13 -0000

i'm going to have to check out this place

Re: Why Aptana is Quickly Becoming the Killer Stack

britg — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:24:15 -0000

haha, thanks "Aptana Management"

Re: Extending PhoneGap to Return the iPhone’s Unique Identifier

britg — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:21:05 -0000

From everything I've read I assumed that the ID is available to all iphones
and ipod touches. I can't find a case in my limited searching where the
first gen iphones done return a unique Identifier, but I don't have one
myself.

Re: Why Aptana is Quickly Becoming the Killer Stack

britg — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:23:10 -0000

Yeah, I agree - that's the biggest hurdle that Jaxer has in front of it.
How does it fit in with all the legacy code that most people have.

It really does take a brave soul to base an entire application on such a new
technology.

Re: Fixing the Keyboard Issue on the Current Version of PhoneGap

britg — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:30:27 -0000

yeah, i hear ya - need to get git up and running so I can commit to my fork on github

Re: Why Aptana is Quickly Becoming the Killer Stack

britg — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:12:14 -0000

The fact that they built it ontop of eclipse is great, especially with the
plugin architecture. I thought about putting in something about that, but
decided to lean more towards the more innovative aspects of the IDE - like
cloud integration, jaxer server, etc.

Re: Fixing the Keyboard Issue on the Current Version of PhoneGap

britg — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:05:07 -0000

Sweet, that's the kind of kick in the pants I need to start contributing - i'll hop into that google group discussion

Re: Why Aptana is Quickly Becoming the Killer Stack

britg — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:31:11 -0000

Nice demo! I'm not familiar enough with apache innards to understand the
filter vs. interpreter concept, that is interesting that the two can work
together. I remember reading this in the jaxer discussions, but it didn't
really sink in that a developer wouldn't use jaxer as the sole middleware in
their app. Very cool

Re: PhoneGap – Native iPhone Apps Running your HTML, CSS, JavaScript Code

britg — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:18:28 -0000

Unfortunately I am still waiting on approval to the dev program so I
cannot help there. And no I did not do any jailbreaking on this
iPhone. Try asking dirk on the phonegap google group - he is very
near to publishing the first phonegap app!

Re: Extending PhoneGap to Return the iPhone’s Unique Identifier

britg — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:25:09 -0000

Yes, I will definitely suggest adding this in to the trunk - not sure what
problems you're running into as I didn't see those. If you can pastebin
your code somewhere I will try to find some time to look at it in the next
couple days.

Re: Integrating CakePHP with bbPress – Part 2

britg — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 14:20:07 -0000

Thanks!

Re: Extending PhoneGap to Return the iPhone’s Unique Identifier

britg — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 08:09:50 -0000

Hey Sahil - yes actually I did get the problem fixed. You can find my
solution here:
http://britg.com/2008/08/23...

Hope that helps!

Re: Who Google Chrome Affects the Most: Adobe

britg — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:00:33 -0000

Valid points and I agree about market share - but the catch is, Chrome is open source and hence their Javascript Engine is open source! (http://chromium.org) So, Chrome doesn't have to make a huge dent in market share to make a huge dent in how the other browsers support javascript and AJAX apps.

From limited testing over about 2-3 hours I could noticeably tell a difference in performance running Gmail, Google Docs, Google analytics, and google reader in separate tabs as opposed to doing this on firefox.

This tells me that their javascript engine technology is superior to others out there - and since it is open source, I can imagine a scenario where other browsers, especially mozilla, adopt this engine.

So, google chrome may never ever gain market share but I'm willing to bet their javascript technology will! This is what bodes poorly for Adobe in my opinion - a new browser market that isn't dominated by Chrome per se, but is dominated by fast and multi-threaded javascript engines!

Re: Who Google Chrome Affects the Most: Adobe

britg — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:51:40 -0000

Interesting points you made on you blog post. I do like the implications chrome will have on cloud computing infrastructure.

Re: Who Google Chrome Affects the Most: Adobe

britg — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:06:19 -0000

Thanks, and yes I agree there will always be a market for rich applications that flash and silverlight will do much better. But, if chrome's technology takes off, I think adobe loses a large share of the business app business to AJAX

Re: Apple Too Stupid to Understand Utility of Outside-The-Box Apps

britg — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 10:37:46 -0000

Haha, ok I agree the headline was a bit over the top, but it just reads better than 'Some Team In Apple's Iphone App Review Department Is Too Stupid To Understand Utility of Outside-The-Box Apps".

Regarding your points - the first few steps of that messy process is meant to be alleviated by getting approved for the app store. If Big5 were a downloadable app, all a user would have to do is 1) open the app, 2) type in the web address just like in Safari.

You are probably right about apple censoring apps that act as another web browser for whatever reason. But, just compare that what Microsoft got in a lot of trouble for doing with Internet explorer in windows. Same exact situation.